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"""Finance or Food? opens up multiple, non-standard conversations about food and land. With great success, this book explores a large number of depoliticized dimensions that lie behind the broad emergence of investment trajectories in food and agriculture and the patterns and privileges of constraining opposition to commodification and suppressing alternatives.""--Richard Le Heron, School of Environment, University of Auckland ""Finance or Food? is a major contribution to research and a valuable addition to contemporary debates over land use and the tensions and complementarities between agriculture, conservation, energy, and finance.""--Emelie Peine, International Political Economy, University of Puget Sound"

Finance or Food? is a major contribution to research and a valuable addition to contemporary debates over land use and the tensions and complementarities between agriculture, conservation, energy, and finance. - Emelie Peine, International Political Economy, University of Puget Sound Finance or Food? opens up multiple, non-standard conversations about food and land. With great success, this book explores a large number of depoliticized dimensions that lie behind the broad emergence of investment trajectories in food and agriculture and the patterns and privileges of constraining opposition to commodification and suppressing alternatives. - Richard Le Heron, School of Environment, University of Auckland

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Hilde Bjørkhaug is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and senior advisor at Ruralis, Institute for Rural ad Regional Research. Philip McMichael is a professor in the Department of Development Sociology at Cornell University. Bruce Muirhead is a professor in the Department of History and Associate Vice President of Research Oversight and Analysis at the University of Waterloo.

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